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Schoolwires Centricity2 Editor Best Practices Table of Contents Introduction... 1 Practices for All Browsers... 2 Bullets Left Justify Bullets... 2 General Editing Use Paste from Word to Insert Text from a Word Document... 2 Image Set Horizontal and Vertical Spacing Around Images... 3 Image Insert Image between Blank Lines... 3 Image Bookmark the Space before or after an Image... 4 Table Insert Table between Blank Lines... 4 Table Select a Rules Option for the Table Border... 4 Table Insert Background Image... 5 Table Access all Table, Row and Column Settings... 5 Specific Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Practices... 6 Bullets Remove all Bullets from a Bulleted List... 6 General Editing Compatibility View Off... 6 Table View Borders in Site Manager... 6 Specific Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Practices... 7 Bullets Remove all Bullets from a Bulleted List... 7 General Editing Compatibility View Off... 7 Table View Borders in Site Manager... 7 Mozilla Firefox Practices... 8 General Editing Insert a New Line between Lines of Text... 8 General Editing Clear and Redo... 8 Tables Increase the Cell Border Size to View a New Cell Border Color... 8 C2EdBestPractices_040412 i
Schoolwires Centricity2 Editor Best Practices Introduction Within this document, we provide you with best practices for working in the Schoolwires full-function Editor. We organized it by supported browsers for Centricity2. The Schoolwires Editor is a What You See is What You Get (WYSISYG) Editor. You use WYSISYG editors to edit web content. You use word processing applications, on the other hand, to edit print content. Therefore, while they may look similar, they behave differently. The Schoolwires Editor may have the same look and feel as the Microsoft Word word processing application, but it is not a word processing application. WYSISYG editors also behave differently in different browsers and browser versions. Therefore, the behavior of WYSISYG editors such as the Schoolwires Editor may change with browser updates. You access this document on the How Do I tab and within the Schoolwires Flex Editor App by clicking Editor Best Practices. C2EdBestPractices_040412 1
Editor Best Practices Schoolwires Centricity2 Practices for All Browsers These best practices apply when working in any of the supported browsers for Centricity2, which are specified in the End User Technical Requirements. Bullets Left Justify Bullets Left justify bulleted items. When you center justify bullets, each bulleted item is centered. When you right justify bullets, each bulleted item aligns to the right margin. In each instance, the bullets do not align with each other. This skews your bulleted list. Justify Left Justify Center Justify Right General Editing Use Paste from Word to Insert Text from a Word Document Use Paste from Word to insert text from a Microsoft Word document. When editing a Microsoft Word document, extraneous HTML code is inserted into the document. This unnecessary code is copied into the editor when you copy text from a Word document unless you use Paste from Word. This is the Schoolwires Editor in HTML view. This is text copied from Word without using the Paste from Word icon. Text highlighted in blue is the actual text copied. All other text is extraneous Word HTML code. 2 C2EdBestPractices_040412
Schoolwires Centricity2 Editor Best Practices Image Set Horizontal and Vertical Spacing Around Images Set Horizontal and Vertical Spacing around images. Set spacing to insert white space around an image and set it off from text within the editor. The Horizontal value you specify is applied to each side of the image. The Vertical value that you specify is applied to the top and bottom of the image. Image Insert Image between Blank Lines Insert an image between blank lines. Insert several blank lines into the editor and then insert your image so that there is at least one blank line above and below the image. Blank Lines Cursor C2EdBestPractices_040412 3
Editor Best Practices Schoolwires Centricity2 Image Bookmark the Space before or after an Image Bookmark the space before or after an image to bookmark the image. Because you cannot bookmark an image, you need to bookmark the space before or after it. Table Insert Table between Blank Lines Insert a table between blank lines. Insert several blank lines into the editor and then insert your table so that there is at least one blank line above and below the table. Blank Lines Cursor Table Select a Rules Option for the Table Border Select a Rules option for the table. When you create a table and add a border to it, be sure to set a value for the Rules field. Rules drop-down list options include outer, all, rows, columns and Not Set. 4 C2EdBestPractices_040412
Schoolwires Centricity2 Editor Best Practices Table Insert Background Image Insert a background image for the entire table. You cannot insert Background images within individual table cells. You insert an image for the entire table. If the background image is smaller than the size of the table, the image is repeated. You may want to size your table to match that of the image you are using. Table sized to fit image size Table sized for clean image repeat Table Access all Table, Row and Column Settings Position the cursor in the table and click the table tag <table>. Select Properties from the pop-up menu. This displays the Table window, which has tabs for the Table Wizard, Table Options and Style Builder, and requires fewer mouse-clicks to access these settings. On the Table Wizard tab, you have buttons for row and cell properties and buttons to add and delete columns and rows. You also have buttons to span (or merge) rows and columns. Select columns or rows in the tab display and apply changes. On the Table Options tab, you set table border and other table options. On the Style Builder tab, you access more advanced tasks. C2EdBestPractices_040412 5
Editor Best Practices Schoolwires Centricity2 Specific Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Practices These best practices apply when working with Internet Explorer 8. Bullets Remove all Bullets from a Bulleted List Highlight the bulleted list and click Bulleted List. Bullets are removed but the remaining text displays double-spaced. To remove the double-spacing, position the cursor at the end of the first line that was bulleted and press the <Delete> key. Press the <Enter> key to place text on the next line. Internet Explorer inserts <p> tags (Paragraph tag) when you remove bullets, which causes the double-spacing. This also occurs if you use Decrease Indent. General Editing Compatibility View Off Do not use Compatibility View. Internet Explorer Compatibility View is not a true browser version. When in Compatibility View, websites are displayed as if they were being viewed in a previous version of Internet Explorer. This can cause issues for WYSIWYG editors. Table View Borders in Site Manager Click Show Borders to display table borders in Site Manager. To see the borders that you have set for a table in Site Manager, click Show Borders. After you save the app, Show Borders is turned off and you must click Show Borders again if you wish to see the table borders. Note also that table borders will display if you click the Preview icon. 6 C2EdBestPractices_040412
Schoolwires Centricity2 Editor Best Practices Specific Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Practices These best practices apply when working with Internet Explorer 9. Bullets Remove all Bullets from a Bulleted List Highlight the bulleted list and click Bulleted List. Bullets are removed but the remaining text displays double-spaced. To remove the double-spacing, position the cursor at the end of the first line that was bulleted and press the <Delete> key. Press the <Enter> key to place text on the next line. Internet Explorer inserts <p> tags (Paragraph tag) when you remove bullets, which causes the double-spacing. This also occurs if you use Decrease Indent. General Editing Compatibility View Off Do not use Compatibility View. Internet Explorer Compatibility View is not a true browser version. When in Compatibility View, websites are displayed as if they were being viewed in a previous version of Internet Explorer. This can cause issues for WYSIWYG editors. Table View Borders in Site Manager Click Show Borders to display table borders in Site Manager. To see the borders that you have set for a table in Site Manager, click Show Borders. After you save the app, Show Borders is turned off and you must click Show Borders again if you wish to see the table borders. Note also that table borders will display if you click the Preview icon. C2EdBestPractices_040412 7
Editor Best Practices Schoolwires Centricity2 Mozilla Firefox Practices These best practices apply when working with Firefox. General Editing Insert a New Line between Lines of Text Position the cursor at the end of the line above where you wish to insert a new line and press the <Enter> key. Firefox has difficulty with existing tagged text (e.g., bold text, italicized text) if the new line is inserted with the cursor positioned at the beginning of a line. General Editing Clear and Redo Remove all text and formatting and start again. If you are encountering formatting issues, it may be a good idea to clear the slate and just start over again. Tables Increase the Cell Border Size to View a New Cell Border Color Increase the size of a cell border when changing the color of the cell border. When you change the border color of an individual cell, the new color displays for only two sides of the cell. Increase the border size of the cell to a value larger than that of the table border for all cell borders to display. 8 C2EdBestPractices_040412